Wonder Woman
#294
[Newsstand]
(August 1982)
DC,
1942 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-05-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893072508
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (credited) (managing editor); Len Wein (credited) (editor); Carl Gafford (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #201.
This issue is a variant of Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #294 [Direct].
This issue is a variant of Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #294 [Direct].
Beware the Blockbuster!
Wonder Woman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (signed as Kane)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (signed as
GIACOIA) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino ?
- Job Number
- C-949
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman; Blockbuster
- Reprints
-
in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #12/1982 (Dezember 1982)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #294 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1013/w200/1013566.jpg?2127544066701231342)
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Rampage!
Wonder Woman / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Roy Thomas (credited) (plot); Marv Wolfman (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Gene Colan (credited)
- Inks
- Frank McLaughlin (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Editing
- Laurie Sutton (credited)
- Feature Logo
Wonder Woman [double W's]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Etta Candy; Steve Trevor; Blockbuster [Mark Desmond] (villain); Senator Abernathy; General Darnell; Willie Macon; Martha Macon; Carrie Macon
- Synopsis
- Diana Prince receives a "Commander Video" game for her birthday which causes havoc for Wonder Woman, including a mindless rampage on a missile base by Blockbuster.
- Reprints
- in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #12/1982 (Dezember 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Steve, Etta, and General Darnell throw a surprise birthday party for Diana Prince, while Diana muses that her real birthday is usually spent on Paradise Island, and the date she gave to the Pentagon for Diana Prince is false.
Blockbuster last appeared in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #498-499.
By Dusk's Dying Light...
Huntress / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Staton (credited)
- Inks
- Jerry Ordway (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (credited)
- Letters
- Janice Chiang (credited)
- Job Number
- J-8195
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Huntress [Helena Wayne]; Crimelord (villain, flashback); Alfred Beagle; Sammy (thug); Harry Sims
- Synopsis
- The Huntress saves Alfred before he's killed by thugs only to learn he's not yet safe.
- Reprints
- in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #13/1982 (Dezember 1982), #1/1983 (Januar 1983)
-
in Adventure (Federal, 1983 series) #3 ([October] 1983) -
in Huntress: Darknight Daughter (DC, 2006 series) (2006 [February 2007]) - in The Huntress: Origins (DC, 2020 series) ([March] 2020)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Beware the Blockbuster!
Wonder Woman -
1.
Rampage!
Wonder Woman -
2.
By Dusk's Dying Light...
Huntress
This issue was modified by
- Jim Stangas
- Dan Stevenson
- Andrew S. Troth
- Jim Van Dore
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